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Title Al-Qaida after ten years of war : a global perspective of successes, failures, and prospects / edited by Norman L. Cigar and Stephanie E. Kramer.

Imprint Quantico, VA : Marine Corps University Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Federal Documents Online  D 214.2:AL 1    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Keynote address : the deep fight / Michael V. Hayden -- Al-Qaida's war with the United Nations and the state system / Christopher C. Harmon -- Al-Qaida's theater strategy : waging a world war / Norman Cigar -- East Africa and the Horn / David H. Shinn -- The state of al-Qaida in Southeast Asia ten years since 9/11 / Adam Dolnik -- Al-Qaida and terrorism in the Arab East : rise, decline, and the effects of doctrine revisions and the Arab revolutions / Amr Abdalla and Arezou Hassanzadeh -- Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb / Ricardo René Larémont -- Al-Qaida and Central Asia : a slowly developing and multipurpose presence / Michael F. Scheuer -- Power by proxy : al-Qaida in Pakistan / Haider Ali Hussein Mullick -- Toward a differential analysis of al-Qaida and the jihadist terrorist threat to Western European nations / Fernando Reinares -- Al-Qaida and the United States : a panel presentation / Peter Bergen.
Note Title from title screen (viewed on May 9, 2012).
Summary Since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has been at war with al-Qaida. Over the past 10 years, counterterrorism efforts have disrupted its main training facilities and eliminated much of the core leadership structure, including the mastermind Usama Bin Ladin. Despite this, al-Qaida has proved resilient. While the core leadership has been compromised, regional al-Qaida offshoots and affiliated Islamist terrorist groups have formed, developed, and become prominent in their own right. To aid in examining and explaining al-Qaida's trajectory, the Minerva Initiative at Marine Corps University hosted a conference in the spring of 2011, just days before Bin Ladin's demise. The panels at this conference addressed diverse issues such as al-Qaida's overarching strategy; the degree of control that central al-Qaida leadership maintains over regional franchises; and the strategies, tactics, successes, and failures in each theater of operation. The resulting papers contribute to the ongoing and ever-evolving net assessment of al-Qaida and its future prospects, and they help inform the crafting of a war termination phase with al-Qaida.
Subject Qaida (Organization) -- Congresses.
Terrorism.
Qaida (Organization) (OCoLC)fst00763708
Terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01148101
Genre/Form Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Cigar, Norman L.
Kramer, Stephanie E.
Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press.
ISBN 9780160902994 (pbk.)
0160902991 (pbk.)
9781511632638
1511632631
9781780397832
1780397836
Gpo Item No. 0383 (online)
Sudoc No. D 214.2:AL 1

 
    
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